Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 480: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application by a person (details supplied); and when he expects this application to be decided on. [27471/07]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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An application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to in the Deputy's Question was received in the Citizenship Section of my Department in June 2006.

Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received at the beginning of 2005 and have approximately 6,400 applications on hand to be dealt with before that of the person in question. These are generally dealt with in chronological order as this is deemed to be the fairest to all applicants. It is likely, therefore, that further processing of the application will commence in early 2009.

I will inform the Deputy and the person concerned when I have reached a decision on the matter.